Talks
Reviews of plasmas.
“An overview of astrophysical plasmas: From microphysics to global dynamics”
Eliot Quataert (UC Berkeley)
“Solar-wind thermodynamics and turbulence – an overview”
Stuart Bale (UC Berkeley)
“Introduction to simulations and bad-curvature-driven instabilities in magnetic confinement fusion”
Greg Hammett (PPPL, Princeton)
Department of Astrophysical Sciences Spring Colloquium.
“Making large-scale magnetic fields”
Steve Cowley (UK Atomic Energy Authority, Imperial)
Department of Physics Spring Colloquium.
“Exploring the mysteries of plasma turbulence”
Frank Jenko (IPP Garching)
Advancing gyrokinetic theory and simulation.
“Multiscale gyrokinetics: Fluctuations, transport, and energy flows”
Ian Abel (Oxford)
“Multiscale, multiphysics modeling of turbulent transport and heating in collisionless plasmas”
Michael Barnes (MIT)
“Kinetic theory of plasma confinement in stellarators”
Per Helander (IPP Greifswald)
“Magnetic-field geometry and magnetized plasma turbulence”
Gabe Plunk (IPP Greifswald)
“viriato: A Fourier-Hermite spectral code for strongly magnetized, fluid-kinetic plasma dynamics”
Nuno Loureiro (IST Lisbon)
Modeling rotating and stratified turbulence.
“Critical balance as a universal scaling conjecture”
Alex Schekochihin (Oxford)
“Critical balance in tokamak turbulence”
Felix Parra (MIT)
“Magnetic helicity transport and dynamo effect in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas”
Amitava Bhattacharjee (Princeton, PPPL)
“Spinning an unmagnetized plasma for magnetorotational instability and dynamo experiments”
Cami Collins (UW-Madison)
“Momentum transport in flowing plasmas”
Fatima Ebrahimi (Princeton, PPPL)
“Statistical description of magnetized coronae above turbulent accretion disks”
Dmitri Uzdensky (CU-Boulder)
“Application of proper orthogonal decomposition to analysis of turbulent dynamics”
David Hatch (UT Austin)
Diagnosing nonlocality, anisotropy, and mesoscale structure in turbulence.
“Energy partitions in dissipative mode space for instability-driven plasma turbulence”
Paul Terry (UW-Madison)
“Sheared turbulence: numerical methods and application to astrophysical disks”
Geoffroy Lesur (IPAG Grenoble)
“Characterizing the mesoscale regime in magnetized accretion disks”
Jacob Simon (CU-Boulder)
“Zonal-flow generation: Recent theoretical insights and analytical tools”
John Krommes (PPPL, Princeton)
“Anisotropy of solar-wind turbulence”
Chris Chen (UC Berkeley)
“Energy spectra in MHD turbulence and in the solar wind”
Stanislav Boldyrev (UW-Madison)
Investigating turbulent heating, energetic particles, and plasma microinstabilities.
“Turbulent transport and heating of minority ions in hot, magnetized plasmas”
Michael Barnes (MIT)
“Extended heating in the solar wind: Understanding resonance broadening in MHD turbulence with quasilinear theory and test particles”
Ian Parrish (CITA)
“The heating and acceleration of the solar wind”
Eliot Quataert (UC Berkeley)
Lorenzo Matteini (Imperial)
“The saturation of firehose and mirror instabilities in turbulent astrophysical plasmas”
Matthew Kunz (Princeton)
“Linear and nonlinear aspects of mode conversion at the Alfvén resonance”
Jay Johnson (PPPL)
“Gyrokinetic simulations of solar-wind turbulence and magnetic reconnection”
Jason TenBarge (Iowa)
Lorenzo Sironi (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
“The impact of pressure anisotropy on magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration”
James Drake (UMD)
Exploring subcritical transitions to turbulence in shearing plasmas.
“Revisiting the stability of quasi-Keplerian flow at large Reynolds numbers in the laboratory”
Hantao Ji (Princeton, PPPL)
Francois Rincon (IRAP Toulouse)
“Turbulence, transport, and flow in laboratory plasmas”
Troy Carter (UCLA)
“Suppressing subcritical turbulence in fusion plasmas”
Edmund Highcock (Oxford)
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